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How to Read a Trade Confirmation
A trade confirmation is one line with six things on it, and the same trade becomes a row in the History tab with more. This paper shows you the confirmation for one real trade with its parts named, the row it became column by column, the three money columns added up to what reached the balance, and the three words the platform uses for one trade.
The confirmation is the line the platform returns when an order is done, and it has six things on it. The ticket number, which is the trade's name for as long as it exists and afterwards in the history. The direction and the size. The fill — the price the trade was actually done at, which on a quiet minute is the price that was on the button and in a fast one may be a fraction of a pip away. The stop loss and the take profit — the two prices at which the platform will close the trade for you, one below and one above — if they were typed on the ticket. And the word done. Of the six, the ticket is the one to keep and the fill is the one to check against the button.
The row it becomes
Once the trade is closed, the same six things reappear as a row in the History tab, with more beside them. The ticket, the time in, the direction and size, the symbol, the fill, the stop and the target are the confirmation again. After them come the columns the confirmation could not have had: the time out and the price out — 1.16259 at the close of 3 September 2026 — and three money columns. A confirmation describes the start of a trade; the row describes the whole of it.
